E RADAR’s Head of Research Dr Daniel Dresner suggests that merely following IT standards doesn’t remove the need for board directors to take responsibility or provide relevant expertise. Back in the days of working with source code escrow (www.nccgroup.com) I wrote about a secret society. No contortions required to shake hands, just some relieving group […]

E RADAR’s Head of Research Dr Daniel Dresner discusses his proposed corporate IT strategy template designed to help make technology selection just that bit more effective for organisations. When I was carrying out an IT review for one of my clients, one of his team asked me if I had a template for an IT […]

It was whilst collecting my thoughts before a local radio interview that I realised that not all the information security news is bad. Yes, not a day goes by without a story of breach here, a theft there, or a copyright infringement somewhere else. Ashby’s law might convince us not to get out of bed […]

Here at E RADAR we recognise that mobile enterprise is the future for information society and the digital economy. The important thing is making that mobility safe and legal. That’s no mean feat given the risks created by the ‘Martini factor’ of ‘Any time, any place’ (except certain Greater Manchester suburbs where a rationalisation of […]

Following on from E RADAR’s recent submission to government, Dr Daniel Dresner sets out his own wish-list for the draft EU Network and Information Security Directive. So. We need a directive about Network and Information Security? Brussels says so. And yes, it is necessary. We needed Tufty, the late Jon Pertwee, and the Green Cross […]

E RADAR has submitted its response to the UK Government’s consultation on the proposed EU Directive on Network and Information Security Online business is global business. The revolution of digital technologies has changed society and our economy fundamentally. The ease of accessibility and searchability of information contained in computer systems, combined with the practically unlimited […]

It’s the dumbing down of standards. If experience, knowledge, wisdom (and the occasional test) suggest a set of actions or measurements are needed to mitigate risks, who are we to hold our broken mirror up against requisite variety and chop off the bits that we can avoid seeing by holding the mirror just so? Tacit […]

The UK Information Commissioner has announced his support for mandatory data protection audits for local councils and the NHS. When I read James Michener’s ‘The Source’, I was struck by the sad end when years of painstaking archaeology failed to uncover the artefact of great significance that started the events in a novel of significant […]

Just wondering as the ‘Chatham House Rules’ is so often quoted, whether people realise that there is but one rule that people are referring to: ‘When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the […]

I’ve been thinking about the preservation of my digital footprint. Not from the point of mortality, nor from the aspect of vanity, but rather from the practical challenge that has been observed by Douglas Adams and probably others that you get to the stage where one may have forgotten more than the sum total of […]